Everitt, W. N. (William Norrie), 1924-2011 (Personal Name)

Conference on the Theory of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Dundee Scot., 1972. Conference ...

Differential equations, dynamical systems, and control science, c1994: CIP t.p. (W. Norrie Everitt; Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, England) data sheet (b. 6-10-24)

Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015 (b. 1924)

MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, viewed online May 5, 2020 (William Norrie Everitt; born 10 June 1924 in Birmingham, England; died 17 July 2011 in Birmingham, England; Willian Norrie Everitt was known as Bill in his younger days; he used the name W. N. Everitt on most of his publications but he has a 1984 paper with his name given as Willian N. Everitt although certainly from the mid 1960s onwards he was known by his friends and colleagues in Dundee as Norrie; from 1991 onwards he has papers with his name given as W. Norrie Everitt; he studied electrical engineering at the University of Birmingham, graduating in 1944; with World War II still taking place, he was drafted into the armed forces; he matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1949 to study mathematics; after the award of his M.A., Everitt continued to undertake research at Balliol College for his doctorate, receiving his D.Phil. in 1955; before the award of his D.Phil., Everitt had been appointed to the Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham in 1954; he was appointed to the Baxter Chair of Mathematics, Queen's College, Dundee, in 1962; for nearly 20 years Everitt was the Baxter Professor of Mathematics in Dundee; one of his most significant contributions was the running of conferences on the Theory of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations; in 1982 Everitt left Dundee to take up an appointment at the University of Birmingham as Mason Chair and Head of the Department of Mathematics; he continued in this role until he retired at the age of 65 in 1989; he continued to work at the University as an honorary Senior Research Fellow until September 2009)